, 1887-06-14
TOW N TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Several teams and a number of men
are engaged in grading North Evans
street.
The city equalization board will prob
ably end its labors on Saturday of this
week.
The depot tower will appear on time as
advertised, rumors to the contrary not
~withstandlng.
The site Of the a%rtesian well at the
county hospital resembles a section of a
deserted village.
The Devils AUCTION, the funniest of
funny spectacular plays. at the opera
house this evening.
A Pine Bluffs real estate man was
showing a party OF Nebraska spectators
around the city yesterday.
A civil suit, involving but a small
amount, occupied the attention of his
honor in Judge Lees court yesterday.
Work on E. Nagle's new residence is
progressing finely. The structure will
be an ornament to East Sixteenth street.
Among other wild pranks Sunday
night. the wind overturned a small frame
structure on the farm OF Alderman
Griffin, northeast of town.
Ed. Towse, a Cheyenne bred boy who
has many acquaintance throughout the
territory, will hereafter have charge of
the local department of THE LEADER.
Citizens of Lusk and settlers in that
vicinity say they are in sorry need of
county roads, public ~thoroughfares are
being fenced so rapidly in that section.
The editor of the Lusk Herald says
hat if it continues to rain in that vicin-
ity as it has for the past six weeks irriga
ton will be unnecessary for successful
farming.
Frank H. Clark yesterday secured the
first bound volume of the new revised
statutes of Wyoming. He secured the
pages as they were printed and then had
them bound into a volume on his own
account.
County Assessor Fisher will hand the
tax roll to the commissioners on the Goth
inst. Parties neglectlng to return their
assessment blanks. properly filed out, on
or before that date, will be subject to a
fine of 5000.
The police records show that but one
culprit has been lodged in the city jail
since last Wednesday. The police are
seriously contemplating the organization
of a strike. claiming that the regular
DRINKS are boycotting the saloons, and
that tramps are boycotting the
Milton Walls, a negro cowboy formerly
in the employ of the ost-Percheron
Horse company, is now serving a three
months sentence in the county Jail for the
larceny of a six shooter and half a dozen
silk handkerchiefs. The theft occurred
at Lusk and the sentence was given by
Justice Martin, of that precinct.
Stock Inspector Parker, stationed at
Lusk, arrived in town last evening with a
horse thief whom he captured recently,
The culprit rode the horse from a ranch
in Albany county, pawHed it to a Lusk
saloon keeper for S25, and proceeded to
get g~loriously drunk. In an unguarded
moment he disclosed the fact that he had
purloined the animal aud was promptly
arrested.
1t seems 10 he the general impression
that there will be no fremaps tourna
ment in Cheyenne on the Fourth. Let
us have a little one, anyhow. The prizes
need not be large to make the races good.
1t is almost absolutely necessary to have
something of this sort every year in order
TO keep the young bloods interested in
der masheen." The occupation of a
volunteer fireman is not a sinecure, and
no one would refuse to contribute a small
sum to purchase prizes for which the
boys would be pleased to compete.
A resident of Sidney, Neb., who some
how wandered into this progressive COM
munity yesterday, says that his village is
now in the whirl of a sanguine boom,
over 500. 900 worth of property having
changed hands there in the past three
weeks. Our Alderman Griffin recently
disposed of some property there for a
consideration of 8 $1,000, but has since
learned that he might have secured So, 900
more by making known the fact that the
estate was for sale, the transfer having
been a private affair.
No. . yesterday morning had an extra
and apparently dead passenger in the
shape of a tramp who occupied q berth
on the hurricane deck of a fruit car. The
train hands hurled coal at the traveller
until they came to the conclusion that he
was either a sound sleeper or had been
suffocated by smoke from the locomotive.
Officer Deitrick revived him, when he ex
planned that he hadn't slept well between
Rawlins and Laramie on account of the
weather. and was endeavoring to recover
lost rest when aroused.